Controlling High Blood Pressure: A Woman's Guide

More than 50 million Americans have high blood pressure, including more than half of women over the age of 60. This guide explains how high blood pressure affects your health and tells how high blood pressure can be prevented with simple lifestyle changes or controlled with lifestyle changes and medication, if needed. Includes information on commonly used medications as well as a handy table that lists the generic names of blood pressure medications. Also provides a chart for recording blood pressure readings. 17 pages. # 55-820

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